Giuseppe Scarlatti was a composer of opere serie

Opera seria

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and opere buffe

Opera buffa

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. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence

Florence

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, Pisa

Pisa

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, Lucca

Lucca

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 and Turin

Turin

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. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice

Venice

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 and for short periods in Milan

Milan

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 and Barcelona

Barcelona

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. In 1760 he moved to Vienna where he enjoyed the friendship of Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...

. "The third most important musician of his clan", it is still uncertain whether he was the nephew of Alessandro

Alessandro Scarlatti

Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...

 born 18 June 1723 or the nephew of Domenico

Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...

 born in 1718. Giuseppe Scarlatti was married to the Viennese singer Barbara Stabili who died about 1753. By 1767 he had married Antonia Lefebvre, who that year bore him a son; she died three years later. Scarlatti died intestate

Intestacy

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 in 1777 in Vienna.

Operas

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
Merope	dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...	3 acts	Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669...	23 January 1740	Rome, Capranica
Dario	dramma per musica	3 acts	G. Baldanza	carnival 1741	Rome, Argentina
Arminio in Germania	dramma per musica	3 acts	C. Pasquini	24 June 1741	Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... , Teatro della Pergola Teatro della Pergola The Teatro della Pergola is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name...
Siroe	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:...	June 1742	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Pompeo in Armenia	dramma per musica	3 acts	Bartolomeo Vitturi	carnival 1744	Pisa Pisa Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa... , Pubblico
Ezio	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	autumn 1744	Lucca Lucca Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca... , Civico
Olimpiade L'Olimpiade L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio originally written for Antonio Caldara's 1733 opera. Following Caldara's success, more than 60 baroque and classical composers used the libretto for their own renditions. Metastasio’s plot, draws upon the narrative of '"The Trial of the...	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	autumn 1745	Lucca, Pubblico
Il giocatore	commedia per musica	2 acts		carnival 1747	Florence, Cocomero
Artaserse	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	26 August 1747	Lucca
Partenope	dramma per musica	3 acts	Silvio Stampiglia	carnival 1749	Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Regio
Semiramide riconosciuta	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	carnival 1751	Livorno Livorno Livorno , traditionally Leghorn , is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009.- History :... , San Sebastiano
Adriano in Siria	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	carnival 1752	Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , San Cassiano
Demetrio	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	11 June 1752	Padua Padua Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having... , Nuovo
I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura	dramma giocoso per musica Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole...	3 acts	Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	11 November 1752	Venice, San Samuele
L'impostore	opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...			1752	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Santa Cruz
Alessandro nell'Indie	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	12 May 1753	Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia.... , Pubblico
De gustibus non est disputandum	dramma giocoso per musica	3 acts	Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	carnival 1754	Venice, San Cassiano
Caio Mario	dramma per musica	3 acts	Gaetano Roccaforte	20 January 1755	Naples Naples Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples... , Teatro di San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance...
Antigona	dramma per musica	3 acts	Gaetano Roccaforte	carnival 1756	Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Ducale
L'isola disabitata (La Cinese smarrita)	dramma giocoso per musica	3 acts	Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...	autumn 1757	Venice, San Samuele
La serva scaltra	dramma giocoso per musica	3 acts		autumn 1759	Venice, Teatro San Moisè Teatro San Moisè The Teatro San Moisè was an opera house in Venice, active from 1640 to 1818. It was in a prominent location near the Palazzo Giustinian and the church of San Moisè at the entrance to the Grand Canal....
La clemenza di Tito	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	carnival 1760	Venice, San Benedetto
L'Issipile	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	autumn 1760	Vienna, Burgtheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
Pelopida (second act)	dramma per musica	3 acts	Gaetano Roccaforte	carnival 1763	Turin, Regio
Bajazet	dramma per musica	3 acts	Agostino Piovene	carnival 1765	Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... , Accademia Filharmonica
Gli stravaganti (La moglie padrona)	commedia per musica	2 acts	Alcindo Isaurense	11 February 1765	Vienna, Burgtheater
Armida	festa teatrale Festa teatrale The term festa teatrale refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case feste teatrali tend to be split into two different sets: feste teatrali divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely...		Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer.He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and...	circa 1766	Vienna, Burgtheater
Dove è amore è gelosia	intermezzo giocoso Intermezzo In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work...		Marco Coltellini	1768	Vienna, Burgtheater
L'amor geloso	azione teatrale comica Azione teatrale Azione teatrale is a genre of opera, popular in Italy in the late 17th and 18th centuries...			5 July 1770	Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna...
Amiti e Ontario, o I selvaggi	dramma per musica		Ranieri de' Calzabigi Ranieri de' Calzabigi Ranieri de' Calzabigi was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas....	1772	Vienna, Burgtheater

Dubious attributions

• La madamigella (libretto by Antonio Palomba
  Antonio Palomba
  Antonio Palomba was an Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist, and music educator. He also worked as a notary. Born in Naples, he became a teacher of the harpsichord at the Teatro della Pace in 1749. Most of his more than 50 opera libretti were comedic works written for composers of the...
  
  , 1755, Naples)
• Il mercato di Malmantide (dramma giocoso per musica, libretto by Carlo Goldoni
  Carlo Goldoni
  Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
  
  , 1758, Venice)

Other works

• La Santissima Vergine annunziata (oratorio, 1739, Rome)
• Componimento per musica (serenata, 1739, Rome)
• L'amor della patria (serenata, libretto by Carlo Goldoni
  Carlo Goldoni
  Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
  
  , 1752, Venice)
• Les aventures de Serail (ballet, 1762, Vienna)
• Imeneo, sognando talora (cantata for tenor and basso continuo)
• I lamenti d'Orfeo (cantata for 2 voices and orchestra)
• Amor prigioniero (cantata for 2 sopranos and instruments)
• Various arias
• Sonata for clavicembalo

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